SeaGlass is a system designed by security researchers at the University of Washington to measure IMSI-catcher use across a city.   Cellular sensors are built from off-the-shelf parts and installed into volunteers’ vehicles Sensor data is continuously uploaded from vehicles and aggregated into a city-wide view Algorithms find anomalies in the cellular network that indicate IMSI-catchers

The Open Source Survey is an open data project by GitHub and collaborators from academia, industry, and the broader open source community.

The majority of your payload will not come from the operating system, or desktop but from the applications. Web browsers and sites are heavy these days and Chrome or Firefox will easily consume more RAM than your operating system and desktop altogether.

In the shot below we have Chrome running with 3 tabs, LibreOffice Writer with an empty document and GIMP without any image file opened. Combined they are already taking about 400 megs and the number will grow a lot once you get going with your work, whatever it is. So if you want to save some RAM, you need to choose lighter weight applications, but they are rarely full-featured.

Vingt-six gigaoctets de documents d’un sous-traitant des agences de renseignement étaient stockés sur un serveur Amazon public.

official CardBook repository (addon for Thunderbird)

Anxiety, depression, sleep deprivation, and body-images issues are among the perverse effects of social media, a new report states.

Dave Winer won’t link to Facebook posts from his blog. I don’t either.

Of all the archives we've surveyed, none has seemed vaster than Europeana Collections, a portal of

In a crime case, investigators don't have access to "the truth"—the data, if you will. All they have are clues which can be put together to make as perfect a guess as possible as to what the nature

Des chercheurs ont mis à jour un malware intégré à une quarantaine d'applications du Play Store et qui pourrait avoir touché jusqu'à 36,5 millions d'utilisateurs. Des applications malveillantes spécialisées dans la fraude au clic publicitaire qui, depuis, ont été supprimées par Google.

We show that the MEMS gyroscopes found on modern smart phones are sufficiently sensitive to measure acoustic signals in the vicinity of the phone. The resulting signals contain only very low-frequency information (< 200 Hz). Nevertheless we show, using signal processing and machine learning, that this information is sufficient to identify speaker information and even parse speech. Since iOS and Android require no special permissions to access the gyro, our results show that apps and active web content that cannot access the microphone can nevertheless eavesdrop on speech in the vicinity of the phone.

OneLogin, an online service that lets users manage logins to sites and apps from a single platform, says it has suffered a security breach in which customer data was compromised, including the ability to decrypt encrypted data.